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CANCELLED, due to COVID concerns. CompArte: Art, Culture, Music, Poetry, Zapatismo August 21, Oakland
The Chiapas Support Committee invites you to the sixth annual CompArte Zapatista, The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival, being held on Saturday, August 21, 2021, 12:00-4:00 p.m. at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, 2465 34th Avenue, Oakland, California. Haz click aquí…
Read MoreZapatista Community Denounces Dispossession and Harassment; Sees Hope in the Journey of Squadron 421
Above: Collective mural about the Journey for Life in the autonomous community of Nuevo San Gregorio. Photo: Sexta Grietas del Norte The community of Nuevo San Gregorio, in Zapatista Caracol 10, denounces the increasing harassment they are experiencing after being…
Read MoreLand & Freedom 2021! Solidarity with the Zapatistas’ Tour for Life
By Michael Löwy. Posted in Camino al andar. July 4, 2021. We are many in this old European continent saluting the Tour for Life of the Zapatista comrades. Due to its global, planetary nature, the Zapatista tour is a historic…
Read MoreVOLANTEM EST ALIO GRADIENDI MODE (What are we waiting for?)
Any day, any month of any year. Droughts Floods Earthquakes Eruptions Contamination. Current and future pandemics. Assassinations of leaders of native peoples, defenders of human rights, guardians of the Earth. Gender violence escalating to genocide against women -the stupid suicide…
Read MoreOtroa Compañeroas | Gender fluidity: A contemporary emergence with ancestral roots
By Sylvia Marcos Published originally in Camino al andar. June 20, 2021. … we know well that there are those who are neither men nor women and that we call them Otroas … and it has not been easy for…
Read MoreThe EZLN mission docks in Galicia, which it renames “Insubordinate Land”
By: Armando G. Tejeda Madrid At 6:10 in the afternoon –European time–, Squadron 421, made up of the Zapatista delegation that sailed the seas to travel from Mexico to this continent, set foot on terra firma in Vigo, one of…
Read MoreTime and Zapatismo
By: Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano Photo: Francisco Lion How much time did the Zapatistas take to decide something as important and transcendental as it is to tour the world to dialogue, to listen, to see, to feel, to probe, to know,…
Read MoreBreak the Siege, Fight for Life
For a new internationalism of the oppressed. By Arturo Anguiano, published by Camino al andar The rebels of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) have once again broken through the siege, by setting off on a trip around the…
Read MoreThe 7 Zapatista delegates arrive in The Azores, Portugal, aboard La Montaña
At 8:23 a.m., the port captain’s boat picked up the crew of La Montaña, reported Subcomandante Galeano. Photo: Screenshot of the video disseminated through Zapatista networks By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas La Montaña, the ship in…
Read MoreA Journey for Life
By: Raúl Romero* Professor Douglass Rushkoff, specialist in media, technology, culture and economics published in 2018, “The Survival of the Richest: The Wealthy Are Plotting to Leave Us Behind.” (or in the Spanish translation, jump ship) (https://bit.ly/3w2krQa). In it, Rushkoff…
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